DHCP and our hosts
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
Tue Mar 13 00:56:56 UTC 2007
Mike McGrath wrote:
> At present our physical hosts use DHCP and our Xen guests do not. I'd
> like to do one or the other. The only issue we have going completely
> DHCP is that hosts like the proxy boxes require some aliased
> interfaces[1] which isn't really a problem but it's a minor
> inconvenience if someone is looking through the dhcpd.conf file for free
> IP's.
>
> Option 1:
> Completely Static IP's, everywhere. (Except for some network devices?)
>
Isn't this the least error prone option?
(Each box keeps the correct network configuration during a failure of
the DHCP server. It cannot be disrupted by another DHCP server that
could possibly come online, in a Xen guest or somewhere.)
Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
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